Urban Energy Transition (eBook, ePUB)

Renewable Strategies for Cities and Regions
Redaktion: Droege, Peter

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Urban Energy Transition, second edition, is the definitive science and practice-based compendium of energy transformations in the global urban system. This volume is a timely and rich resource for all, as citizens, companies and their communities, from remote villages to megacities and metropolitan regions, rapidly move away from fossil fuel and nuclear power, to renewable energy as civic infrastructure investment, source of revenue and prosperity, and existential resilience strategy. - Covers technical, financial, systems, urban planning and design, landscape, mapping and modelling, and sociological issues related to urban renewable energy transformations - Presents city-wide renewable energy strategies and urban thermal performance planning, sector coupling, and smart distributed renewable energy and storage systems - Examines individual and mass transport systems in the contexts of urban mobility trends and energy innovations - Explains successful innovations in solar bond finance, blockchain technology enabled peer-to-peer renewable energy trading systems, and the case for renewable energy based regional monetary systems - Features foci on societal, community and user enabling aspects such as energy justice, prosperity and democracy, and urban renewable energy legislation, programs and incentives - Includes analytic case insights into successful practices from around the globe that provide local, regional and country-specific governance and organizational perspectives

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
• Seitenzahl: 706
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. August 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780081020753
• Artikelnr.: 54791587

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction and overview:

The Great Transformation: Cities and Regions Embracing Renewable Energy
Peter Droege

1 DESIGNING THE ESSENTIAL CITY
1.1 The Renewable Cities Revolution
Peter Newman
1.2 Utilizing the Urban Fabric as the Solar Power Plant of the Future
John Byrne, Job Taminiau
1.3 Sustainable Neighborhood Design in Tropical Climates
Federico M. Butera
1.4 Solar for Gaza: An Energetic Framework for Renewable Peace and Prosperity for Gaza and Its Greater Region
Peter Droege, Sherman Teichman, Cody Valdes
1.5 The 100% Renewable Energy Metropolis: Governing the Design of Cities for Renewable Energy Infrastructures
Anis Radzi
1.6 Renewable Wilhelmsburg, Hamburg, Germany: Using the International Building Exhibition to Fight Climate Change
Uli Hellweg
1.7 Buildings as Renewable Power Plants: Active Houses for the Electric City
Werner Sobek
1.8 Space, Place, and Energy: Perspectives on the Energetic Design of Cities and Regions
Sören Schöbel
1.9 The Electric Highway: Intelligent Infrastructures for Kinetic Cities
Deborah Ascher Barnstone, Robert V. Barnstone

2 SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGIES
2.1 Reducing Passenger Transport Energy Use in Cities: A Comparative Perspective on Private and Public Transport Energy Use in American, Canadian, Australian, European and Asian Cities
Jeffrey R. Kenworthy
2.2 Transport and Mobility Trends in Beijing and Shanghai: Implications for Urban Passenger Transport Energy Transitions Worldwide
Yuan Gao, Jeffrey R. Kenworthy, Peter Newman, Weixing Gao
2.3 Urban Energy Storage and Sector Coupling
Ingo Stadler, Michael Sterner
2.4 The Urban Energy Transition: Pathways to Climate Neutrality in Our Cities
Bernd Hirschl
2.5 Thermal City: Comprehensive Guide to the Heating and Cooling of Urban Areas
Wolfram Sparber, Roberto Fedrizzi, Chiara Dispasquale
2.6 Implementing the Heating Sector Transition in Our Cities - Challenges and Problem-Solving Approaches Based on the Example of Municipalities in Germany
Julika Weiß, Elisa Dunkelberg, Bernd Hirschl
2.7 Renewable Malls: Transforming Shopping Centres Into Flexible, Decarbonized Urban Energy Assets
Grazia Barchi, David Moser, Roberto Lollini
2.8 Photovoltaic City: Effective Approaches to Integrated Urban Solar Power
David Moser, Marco Lovati, Laura Maturi
2.9 Wiring the Southeast Asian City: Lessons From Urban Solar Applications in the Philippines
Jessie L. Todoc
2.10 Conceptualizing the Urban Nexus framework for a Circular Economy: Linking Energy, Water, Food, and Waste in Southeast-Asian cities
Steffen Lehmann

3 INVESTMENT, FINANCE, TARIFFS AND VALUE
3.1 The Untouched Market: Distributed Renewable Energy in Multitenanted Buildings and Communities
Jemma Green, David Martin, Meagan Cojocar
3.2 Canberra-Renewable Energy Leader
Greg Buckman, Dorte Ekelund, Stephen Bygrave, Jon Sibley, Megan Ward
3.3 An Integrative Business Model for Net-Zero Energy Districts
Victor Olgyay, Iain Campbell
3.4 Value-Added and Employment Effects of Renewable Energies and the Energy-Efficiency Refurbishment of Existing Housing-Case Study: Berlin, Germany
Katharina Heinbach, Bernd Hirschl, Steven Salecki
3.5 Multiple Benefits of Smart Urban Energy Transition
Adriano Bisello, Daniele Vettorato
3.6 Renewable Energy: Stabilising Money and Society
Shann Turnbull

4 GOVERNANCE, COMMUNITY AND PLANNING
4.1 Smart Guidance: Governing the Urban Energy Transition
Jörg Knieling, Katharina Lange
4.2 Reaching 100% Renewable Energy: Lessons Learned from Aspen, Colorado
Joyce McLaren
4.3 Sustainable Energy Transitions in Sub-Saharan African Cities: Th